Oracle OpenWorld 2009 brought Sun executives and technologies to the center stage during the five-day event held in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Sun co-founder Scott McNealy made the final keynote on day one of the conference to a packed Hall D Moscone North. He reflected on the top 10 innovations from Sun, and the technologies that will get even more funding from Oracle following the acquisition. Following McNealy on stage, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said combining Oracle and Sun's technology would let Oracle "do things neither company would be able to do by themselves."
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If you'd like to have your Mac desktop run like a big iron mainframe, it's now possible through the magic of virtualization to approximate just that. In a Macworld UK article, Richard Leon both extols the virtues of Sun's open-source VirtualBox and takes readers, step-by-step through the process of installing and running the solution.
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Not only will VirtualBox 3.0 do most of what both VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion can do, it comes free of charge with a Personal Use and Evaluation License from Sun, writes Jeff James in his Windows IT Pro review. James was also impressed by the capability VirtualBox 3.0 gave him to work with a variety of guest OSes.
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Just a few days after Java SE 6 Update 15 was announced, the team released Update 16 describing it as a special release providing a few key fixes. The Update 15 release comes with revisions to both the Java SE development kit (JDK) and Runtime Environments (JRE). These updates are Windows 7 support-ready and includes support for Internet Explorer 8, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2. New features include the Garbage-First (G1) garbage collector, plus performance and security enhancements.
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